Sentences with phrase «genetic duplicate of»

But bananas are generally very weak, because, like human identical twins, each one is an exact genetic duplicate of the other.

Not exact matches

Scientists spoke of multiple cases in which people displayed apparent immunity to AIDS, and expressed hope that their genetic makeup could be duplicated...

«Duplicating exactly this combination of genetic characteristics and growing conditions would be difficult, assuring a place for Thailand's distinctive Jasmine rice in the market,» he added.

Carmona - Mora and colleagues in Megan Dennis» lab at the University of California, Davis identified parts of humans» entire set of genetic instructions, or genome, that are duplicated in people but not in other primates.

Through their analysis, the researchers determined the genetic alterations found in both the primary tumors and the metastases frequently were a type of genetic abnormality called a copy number alteration, which is when sections of DNA are repeated (i.e. duplicated).

After the gene was duplicated — now I just mention [ed] that duplication takes place all of the time, they are common sort of genetic accidents — but after the genes were duplicated, now there was the opportunity to divide the labor that was once stored by a single gene; now divide that labor into two genes, and what happened is, a series a mutations have taken place that has optimized each role — that the regulatory sensor role of GAL3 and the enzymatic - converting role of GAL1.

The scientists, Nicole King and Arielle Woznica of the University of California, Berkeley, with collaborators Jon Clardy and J.P. Gerdt at Harvard Medical School in Boston, discovered that within minutes after exposure to a chonodroitin sulfate (CS) lyase produced by V. fischeri, S. rosetta cells aggregate into mass mating swarms, entering into cell and nuclear fusion while duplicating and recombining their genetic material.

The divergent evolution of a duplicated gene results in genetic incompatibilities between strains of the plant Arabidopsis.

Occasionally, though, one of the nucleotide base pairs that make up the molecule gets switched, or a short stretch of genetic code is duplicated.

(Phys.org)-- A study out of Harvard and Purdue universities is starting to unravel the genetic mechanisms that allow some plants to duplicate their entire genomes and continue to reproduce.

To prevent genetic imbalances after cell division, the cell has to make sure that all 46 duplicated chromosomes (in case of a diploid human cell) are bioriented and ready to be pulled in opposite directions.

With no tell - tale signs of whole genome duplication, the researchers say, the octopus must have instead duplicated specific regions of its genetic code — and acquired totally novel genes — over the course of its evolution.

For elucidating the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer.

Wigler's theory gave autism researchers a new place to look for answers, and other researchers found that the genomes of autistic children did turn out to have de novo CNVs — large stretches of their genetic code had been deleted or duplicated.